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Newport Polo Club appoints zoo as beneficiary

PORTSMOUTH – The Newport Polo Club has named the Roger Williams Park Zoo as the beneficiary of this year’s International Polo Charity Ball, “The...
BANK OF AMERICA RHODE ISLAND PRESIDENT Bill Hatfield, rear, watches as students from George J. West Elementary School in Providence on a field trip this past Tuesday listen to an educator at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art. Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts sits beside him. The bank has provided a $10,000 grant for a Big Yellow School Bus program offered by The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. / COURTESY  REINHARD SOKOL

Bank of America gives to arts council

PROVIDENCE – A $10,000 grant from Bank of America Rhode Island to the R.I. State Council on the Arts for its Big Yellow School...
MAYOR SCOTT AVEDESIAN, left, stands at the award ceremony on April 19 with Scott Carlson Memorial Road Race 5K Chairwoman Judy Pratt, her husband and event committee member Jon Pratt, and their children, Alex and Samia. The event helped the Rhode Island chapter of the ALS Association pass the half-million dollar mark for fundraising. / COURTESY NANCY FEROLDI

Road race raises $50K for ALS association

WARWICK – The 14th annual Scott Carlson Memorial Road Race 5K run/walk on April 19 raised more than $50,000, putting fundraising for The ALS...
TAX COLLECTIONS from Rhode Island restaurants rose 4.8 percent in February compared with the same month a year earlier, while hotel collections fell 2.8 percent, the R.I. Department of Revenue reported Tuesday. / COURTESY COOK & BROWN PUBLIC HOUSE

R.I. restaurant collections rise 4.8% in Feb., hotel collections fall

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island hotel tax collections fell 2.8 percent in February to $126,603 compared with $130,278 in February 2013, the R.I. Department of...
"St. Elizabeth Community is solidly in the middle of strategic planning, and we are looking at all areas of care for seniors as potential areas for growth."

Five Questions With: Steven J. Horowitz

Steven J. Horowitz, who in 1985 joined the administrative staff of St. Elizabeth Community, a nonprofit, nonsectarian organization providing care to older adults and...

Children’s Friend to hold 5K

PROVIDENCE – Children’s Friend holds its 12th annual Children’s Friend 5K Walk & Run, sponsored by Panera Bread, on Saturday, April 26. The 10:30 a.m....
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Vets to honor Carters

PROVIDENCE – An April 26 fundraiser at The Vets Foundation will honor philanthropists John and Letitia Carter, whose support helped renovate a ballroom at...

Newport celebrates anniversary

NEWPORT – The city will celebrate its 375th anniversary on April 28 with publication of a new book, exhibits and the launch of reproduction...

Alec Baldwin helping Adams Memorial Library

CENTRAL FALLS – Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin is lending his name to a Baldwin for Books fundraiser for the Adams Memorial Library and visiting...
THE REV. DR. NICANOR AUSTRIACO has received a $257,049 grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute for General Medical Sciences to study the behavior of genes linked to human cancers such as lymphoma, leukemia, and prostrate and breast cancer. / COURTESY PROVIDENCE COLLEGE

PC theologian awarded NIH grant for cancer research

PROVIDENCE – A biologist and theologian at Providence College has been awarded a major national health grant to support research of a gene linked...
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